Dr Iyan Offor is an assistant professor in environmental law and founding leader of the Multispecies Collective (a community researching change toward futures of flourishing for animals, nature and society). Iyan is a critical socio-legal theorist conducting interdisciplinary research on multispecies legalities. Iyan’s research uses posthumanist, queer and intersectional perspectives to investigate law, policy, society, philosophy, activism, creative practices and research methods concerning biodiversity, conservation, wildlife and multispecies flourishing. His active research projects are: Solarpunk Narrative and Multispecies (Legal) Worlding; and Transqueer Ecological Justice.

Iyan published his monograph entitled Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and their Bodies with Routledge. His recent research has been published in journals including Transnational Environmental Law, the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.

Iyan is co-editor in chief for the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, academic consultant for the UK Centre for Animal Law, and associate editor for the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. Iyan has previously held positions as senior lecturer at Birmingham City University, global research fellow at the Center for Animal Law Studies, and associate lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. Iyan has also been a visiting lecturer at Aarhus University, Lewis & Clark Law School, University of Manchester, University of Stirling, and Wageningen University and Research. Iyan has held visiting scholar positions at Lewis & Clark Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

Iyan's current research is broadly undertaken within the scope of the following research projects:

• Solarpunk and Multispecies Worlding - Exploring solarpunk literature to craft queer and hopeful methodologies for the task of multispecies legal worlding.
• Transqueer Ecological Justice - Exploring hopeful, transqueer multispecies imaginaries to reconceptualise justice in the Anthropocene.

Iyan has recently completed research on the following themes:

• Animals and free trade agreements (chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Global Animal Law)
• Animal rights and rights for nature (special issue of the Environmental Rights Review)
• Innovating toward better legal futures for animals (hosting the UK Animal Law Conference)
• Multispecies lawscapes in the Anthropocene (co-authored chapter, together with Dr Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann, in the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law)
• Theories and concepts for critical animal law studies (chapter in the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Animal Law and Animal Rights)
• Theory, wildlife, and the law (special issue of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy)